Are you fed up of reading Indian writers dishing out the same diaspora-nostalgia-angst-ridden fiction? Then buckle up and head straight for Turbulence by Samit Basu!
Awesomely kick-ass, tongue firmly in cheek, a ‘fun’tabulously high laugh-out-loud and chuckles-per-page rate, completely contemporary, a total paisa-vasool plot and storyline (with a sequel just begging to be written) — it’s an absolutely “super” book! Yes, I’m positively gushing! 🙂
I can easily see it being made into (if all of the below haven’t already happened, that is)
(a) a comic
(b) a graphic novel
(c) a Bollywood movie (that adds songs and dances and removes all traces of story that are important to the plot)
(d) a Hollywood movie that will launch a new Shia Labeouf and Megan Fox of sub-continental origin, with mind-blowing effects
I won’t say anything more; just that you simply must go and get this book and experience it yourself — yes, not just read; it’s an experience all right, and I mean that in a very good way!
It’s certainly the first of its kind that I’ve read from an Indian author, and hats off to Samit Basu for pulling this off most adroitly!
Thanks for the info. I will pick this book up when I visit India next!
Well, just a few letter here n there and it would have been my name instead of the author and this makes it special for me! 😛
I was nodding my head as I read your first line…heading out to JustBooks and borrowing it this week itself.
suresh
I know, @Sumit! In fact, when I saw the comment, for a moment I read it as Samit 😀
Hope you guys like the book as much as I did.
Getting. 🙂 Now. Flipkart zindabad!
Banno, I would have bought it as a special gift for you — you are the first subscriber to my blog! 😀 Thanks!